“You have?! Who is it?!” Amy asked excitedly to hear such good news. Steven calmed himself down and began to explain,
“Well we were at that band’s gig on Saturday, the band was called Castro and Mark and I were standing in the crowd and saw their bassist, both took one look at his hair and thought exactly the same thing of “wow he has awesome hair, would fit in well with the band” so after this great set he did we with Castro, we went over to him and got talking and find he lives in Scotland and his name’s Alan Williamson, we asked if he would be interested in joining our band and he said he’d love to!” Steven exclaimed with a big smile on his face.
“Aww, Steven that’s brilliant! But he lives in Scotland, how is he going to make band practises?” Amy asked, trying not to put a downer on the mood with problems,
“Ah no, him and his family were planning on moving after we all left school so Alan joining our band made them decide they want to move to Derby, which is great because then we can all start college together and carry on with the band, and seeing as we’re leaving school in a few weeks anyway, it should be a quick process” Explained a confident Steven as the two started walking down the corridors, hand in hand, to their form room.
“Well that’s very well planned! And what’s Alan like?” Amy inquired as they reached the door to the form,
“Al’s a great guy, he’s so friendly and genuine, and I don’t think we could find anyone nicer! He has a girlfriend, she was with him at the gig, and she’s called Caitlin. You’ll be meeting both of them very soon when they come down to check out the area and maybe have a first band practice” Steven smiled as he remembered how much kinder Alan was compared to Tom. Amy was thrilled to hear such positive words from Steven about a potential new bassist, she grinned at his enthusiasm,
“He sounds lovely, and he has a girlfriend? I think we would get on very well!” The bell for form rang through the empty corridors which was the catalyst for a huge stampede of children. Mrs. Broadway came hurrying down the corridor in the midst of all the loud, screaming chaos and unlocked the door to the form room. Amy and Steven resumed their usual place at the back of the classroom, close together, facing away from the rest of the class.
“Oh we have Art first thing” Steven commented as he looked at his time table, “don’t we have to submit our final pieces today, as well?”
“Yeah we do! I finished mine; did you do any of your artwork while you were in hospital or what?” Amy asked as she noticed Steven hadn’t had much time on his piece compared to everyone else in the class
“I finished it off while in hospital, you haven’t seen it have you? I was gonna keep it a secret from you until it was finished” Steven inquired, he looked as though it was going to be a good surprise for Amy,
“No, I haven’t seen it! I get to see it in Art next?” Amy asked, getting a bit excited because after all the effort Steven had made to not let Amy see the unfinished piece it must be something very special.
“You shall, and I hope you love it as much as I do, if that doesn’t sound too self-aggrandising” Steven replied mysteriously. The rest of the form time was spent like every other form time; chatting about bands and more importantly what they were going to do once they left school. Amy, Steven, Mark, Stephanie and Alan and Caitlin had all ended up deciding to go to the same local college which would be very good for the band as Steven said on countless occasions that they could do band practices every lunch and they’d have another local venue as well as the Vic pub.
The end of form bell rang and Amy and Steven made their way to the Art room which was very large, brightly lit and had artwork from sculptures to canvases hanging in every spare corner and on every spare bit of wall, making the room very colourful. Miss. Lester, the art teacher, was a small young lady with short blonde hair and dark brown eyes, she greeted Amy and Steven with warm smiles and said “good morning” in a soft, light voice,
